The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-13

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"But one evening, after he had be-
gun to get out @ little, one OF his mates
came in.
"'What sort OF q meetingT said
Jack.
ooh, I can't say exactly-some.
thing interesting, they told me, and
everybody invited
"He stole queer look ut me, and I
knew he wanted me to help him. So,
as really thought it might do Jack
good, said:
:" Yes, Jack, 60 along with Tom
But I'm not presentable with this
Iace!'
'Pshaw, man! it's evening, and
nobody'll, notice. Leastways, they
with a little more coaxing, Jack
set of with him. had hardly heard
the gate click, when the door opened
again, and Jennie Brown came in like
sprite.
"'Quickl quick Mrs. Burton! Put
On your bennett she whispered.
"'Where? What do you meanF /
said, for was frightened.
TO Me meetins Hurry, or we
shall be too latel'
"She was tying my bonnet strings I'm.
der my chin as she spoke; and she had
the house door locked and me down
the garden path and out OF the back
gate fairly without my will. She hur-
ried me across the square, and thep
pushed me through the crowd around
the hall entrance.
II was out OF breath with nervous.
ness and fast walking so we sat down
in q back seat. The room was full.
There were great many ladies there,
and on the platform sat the superin-
tendent and several OF the directors
OF the road. Everybody seemed to be
whispering and smiling and looking
backward toward the door, and l
looked, too, although did not know
why.
"Then the door opened, and Jack
came in with Tom. i heard some
body on the other side OF me whisper,
That's hel' and another and anoth-
err, and rustic crept through the
place, and then, all at once, such cheer
went up as, / can truly say, / never
heard in all my life before-no, not
even when the troops came home from
war. The people stood up, and the
ladies waved their handkerchiefs.
"The superintendent tried to speak,
and raped on his table, but all liz
vain, until the crowd had their three
times three.
"And through it all watched my
boy. He looked around him, dazed
at first by all the tumult, and trying
to see what it meant; wherever he might
turn his eyes he met hundred Others
smiling on him, and score OF hands
stretched out to him as he passed
and, all at once-he knewl
40 sir, l cannot tell you about it!
How they carried him up to the front.
though not on the platform-there he
would not go-how they found me out
and made me sit beside him; how there
were speeches and hand shakings and
laughing and crying.
"And at last the superintendent
said that there was a little child there,
the granddaughter OF the President OF
the road, who had been with her moth
err on the train that day, and that
she had been selected by many crate
iul friends to present little token to
the man whose faithful courage had
saved so many lives.
"Then beautiful lady, all in soft,
rustling silk. came up the aisle, lead
ing the loveliest child ever saw, with
q great glory OF golden hair around
her head, like the picture OF an angel.
felt Jack start, for it was the very
child whose face had come to MIN in
that awful moment on the flying en-
zine.
"The little thing let go her mothers
hand as she came near, looking up
with shy, blue eyes, and ia her small
fingers was q purse ofgold. You could
see the great coins shining through the
silk netting. She held it up to him, and
all the room was still as death. /
heard one great sob rise In my
boys throat, and then he lifted the
,hild in his arms, and stood up, hold
ing her straight and tall.
"But he did not take the purse. NO,
iarling' everybody heard. Then he
kissed her, and lifted one long curl
rom her neck.
"This is the only gold I want, he
said, and looked at the child'smother
with a question in his eyes.
"The lady nodded, and my boy
took out little pair OF scissors from
his vest pocket, and cut the curl of
gently, and put it carefully away.
"And sir, II they had cheered before,
what was it now2 The arched ceiling
rang, the gas-jets flared and aickered,
and the very pendants on the chande-
liarc 4 a chad tooathar